Speed Cameras and Speed Limits (Speed Cameras and Speed Limits)

Member Name: SepticTank

Product:	Speed Cameras and Speed Limits
Date:	06/06/09 (49 review reads)
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Advantages: Slow down traffic, make the area safer

Disadvantages: Often misplaced and do more harm than good

I think that speed cameras and speed limits are essential. However, I think they are often in the wrong places.

There's a steep hill where I live and the number of people who get caught for doing 35 in a 30 zone just because it's on a very steep hill and breaking doesnt actually really help much is rather unfair.

Also, the speed limit on the road before the school is 20. School road is a 30 zone, though. Another incorrect speed in my opinion.

There's a park entrace with a 30mph sign right outside the gate, yet before the gate it's 20mph. It changes about 10 metres before the gate. Where's the sense in that?

And what about when speed cameras go crazy? My mum got a speeding ticket for going 38mph in a 40mph zone. They hadnt even put the signs in yet to say it was going down to 30mph, yet the camera caught her and they said that the zone was 30mph now. Several of her friends had the same problem. None of them ever speed unnecessarily.

Although the concept of speed cameras and speed limits is a very good idea, some serious thought needs to go into the positioning of these things.

Summary: Some serious thought needs to go into their positioning